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Nicholas Barton — 18 Patents

SUSunpower: 8 patents #87 of 453Top 20%
QUQuestech: 6 patents #3 of 25Top 15%
DSDa Vinci Systems: 2 patents #3 of 6Top 50%
Richmond, CA: #41 of 603 inventorsTop 7%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Nicholas Barton has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in December 2019. Nicholas Barton ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Nicholas Barton in Richmond, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1989.peak 21989: 2 patents19891990: 2 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 2 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10520224 Drive with integrated inclination sensor Ryan Linderman 2019-12-31 $9,716,000
10351193 Holding device for positional control of a shaft — 2019-07-16
9920957 Drive with integrated inclination sensor Ryan Linderman 2018-03-20 $5,046,000
9746655 Locating connectors and methods for mounting solar hardware Brian Wares, Charles Almy 2017-08-29 $9,132,000
9455664 Support for solar energy collectors — 2016-09-27 $8,919,000
9353970 Drive with integrated inclination sensor Ryan Linderman 2016-05-31 $9,448,000
9035168 Support for solar energy collectors — 2015-05-19 $9,872,000
8893713 Locating connectors and methods for mounting solar hardware Brian Wares, Charles Almy 2014-11-25 $38,071,000
8881415 Solar system alignment tool and method — 2014-11-11 $18,214,000
6337692 Primary and secondary color manipulations using hue, saturation, luminance and area isolation Sanjay Devappa Rai, Troy Taylor, Xueming Henry Gu 2002-01-08
6266103 Methods and apparatus for generating custom gamma curves for color correction equipment Sanjay Devappa Rai, Xueming Henry Gu 2001-07-24
5822015 Providing an accurate tally indication of sources in use for output Antony Richard Jones, Hugh K. Littlejohn 1998-10-13 $588,000
5293233 Digital video effects with image mapping on to curved surface Robert Billing 1994-03-08 $84,000
5220428 Digital video effects apparatus for image transposition Robert Billing 1993-06-15 $106,000
4922345 Processing of video image signals Robert Billing, Hugh K. Littlejohn 1990-05-01
4918530 Processing of video image signals Robert Billing 1990-04-17 $60,000
4879597 Processing of video image signals Robert Billing, Paul K. Burgess 1989-11-07 $111,000
4847691 Processing of video image signals Robert Billing 1989-07-11 $113,000

Frequent Collaborators

Robert Billing6 shared
Ryan Linderman3 shared
Sanjay Devappa Rai2 shared
Brian Wares2 shared
Hugh K. Littlejohn2 shared
Charles Almy2 shared

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